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Nottingham City Group updates

Green Festival a great success - again!

This years Green Festival highlighted the team work, imagination and ingenuity of the Nottingham city group.  Peter created a fishing game based on that...
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Nottingham activist in challenge to European Business Summit

Activists lock climate laggards out of business summit   Feature story - May 18, 2011 This morning in Brussels, more than 170 Greenpeace activists...
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MP Lobbying

Yesterday I met up with Chris Leslie MP (Nottingham East) to lobby him regarding  the Climate Change Act, the Finance Bill an the Energy Bill.  Chris...
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Wikileaks show the Arctic could be the new cold war

UPDATE: Watch BBC Newsnight's feature on the Wikileaks Arctic files Submarine explorers planting Russian flags under the North Pole. Military tension between...
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Mayday Festival 2011

It was a sunny and very windy day at Victoria Park in Sneinton and at one point there were more police than stall holders but people gradually arrived and...
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Chernobyl 25th anniversary commemoration

A good crowd of over 200 people came along on the 26th April to join in the commemorations for the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.  We...
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Re Chernobyl commemoration

I have been given the draft programme for this event, which is as below: Draft Programme – Subject to final confirmation:   18:45   Lord...
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Lovely day at Greens Mill

Cath and I had a lovely day at the Sustainable Energy Event organised by Nottingham City Council.  Due to them not advertising it very well there weren't...
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Nottingham Street Comms Training: Sat 14 May - Last few spaces available

We've a couple more spaces available for anyone who wants to come along for an enjoyable day, learning about Greenpeace, picking up useful tips on interacting...
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Tuna Campaign Update

Last week I sent out frantic messages and texts to various people telling them not to do any stickering of tins of tuna and most of you guessed that...
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Gaslands

Hey guys A couple of weeks ago Jane and I went to the Broadway to watch Gaslands so just thought I would write a quick post about it. The film is all about...
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Princes and ASDA to clean up their tuna acts

All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace/Kristian Buus It's with enormous pleasure that I can reveal that Princes has (finally) got the message that bycatch is...
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Rainbow Warrior benefit gig raised £520. Success!

This is going to sound like an Oscar acceptance speech but there are lots of people I need to thank for the success of the benefit gig on Thursday night....
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Princes - Kings of ocean destruction

A frenzy of sharks surround Princes HQ

Well we may not be there in person this time but we in Nottingham are being represented by - a shark suit!  So here is the press release.......(oh, and by...
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Why we disagree about climate change: Prof Mike Hulme

Went to Nottingham Trent University on 10 Feb to see Prof Mike Hulme deliver a lecture based on his book "Why we disagree about climate change".  He...
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Good news for palm oil campaign

Dear all, please find below some good news in our on-going forest work. Ian duff, our Forests campaigner, has sent this message from Indonesia for the Key...
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The secret catch of Princes tuna - sharks and turtles get killed too

Save marine life - get Princes to change their ways Watch the new Greenpeace animation about destructive tuna fishing by Joss Garman, oceans...
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2010 That was the year that was

So as the new year starts with a new campaign I thought it would be good for all of us too look back and reflect on the amazing work we did in Nottingham...
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Ocean Killers

New Year.  New campaign.  I cannot say much about the campaign as it is all under wraps but I can say it is about the way tuna is caught. ...
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Anna Soubry MP accepts Go Beyond Oil petition postcards

Today Dave Mooney and I, together with Han, a Chinese student from Nottingham University, met Anna Soubry, the MP for Broxtowe to present a number of petition...
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